Mario was born in 1926 in Daman as Mario Joao Carlos do Rosario de Britto a Miranda, better known as Mario Miranda. His family moved to Goa when Mario was eight.

Miranda first began at Current at the instance of Karaka. Mario joined the TOI group in 1953, and worked for the Illustrated Weekly of India and other publications. He was in his twenties. Mario was to the magazines of  the Times of India what Laxman was to the daily paper . It was really remarkable that two great cartoonists were working together in the same publishing house — Laxman handled the newspaper and Mario the magazines. Laxman was primarily a political cartoonist and Mario excelled in the social cartoon. Mario did his schooling at St. Joseph’s High School, Bangalore and did his B.A. in history at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He attended the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1943 only for a day and decided not to take any formal training for the rest of his life. He left for Lodon in 1960 and returned to Goa in 1961. He then rejoins the Times group. He married Habiba Hydari in 1963. She was from one of the noble famililies of Hyderabad. He has painted murals on the walls of Mondegar Cafe, Mumbai. He regularly travelled abroad in the 1970s. His works then were based on his observations there. He produced by far the largest and most influential images of Goa of all the artists.

Mario Miranda expired in his ancestral home at Loutolim, Goa in the early hours of Sunday, the 11th December, 2011, at the age of 85.He is survived by his wife Habiba and two sons Raul and Rishaad. Raul is a hairdresser who lives in New York.

I had the privilege to meet Mario at Loutolim village  in 1987. He was a very vivacious person.